Monthly Archives: May 2016

AO-73, It’s Been Ages

Posted on May 19, 2016 by robert

My last AO-73 QSO was about 10 months ago.  Part of the reason is laziness — it is time consuming to relocate the uplink offset each time I try to work the bird.  I’ve read that the uplink passband is unstable … Continue reading →

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Log Shows QSOs With Ten Different Satellites

Posted on May 19, 2016 by robert

I went through my logbook since I got back on the air five years ago and discovered a bunch of confirmed satellite QSOs.  In that time I’ve worked the following: AO-7 Confirmed by eQSL AO-27 (Four QSOs but no confirmations … Continue reading →

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A Bit More Satellite DX

Posted on May 19, 2016 by robert

During a FO-29 pass over the Atlantic I worked two European stations:  Francisco EA1JM in Spain, and Graham, G3VKV in England.

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Another Great Satellite Day

Posted on May 18, 2016 by robert

I’m feeling guilty for neglecting DX, but I’ve been having a bunch of fun with satellites recently. Several QSOs on FO-29 with calibration of both SSB and CW uplink performed.  Not much CW action on these days, but I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Worked Ireland via FO-29

Posted on May 17, 2016 by robert

Well this is RARE DX for me.  I’ve only worked stations in the USA and Canada before, but FO-29 has a much larger footprint than more recent LEO satellites.  I worked George, MI6GTY, on CW from his location in Northern … Continue reading →

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Setup Funcube Dashboard Again

Posted on May 17, 2016 by robert

I was getting ready for a decent AO-73 pass, when it dawned on me that it was daylight, and therefore the bird was in the Telemetry mode.  Rather than call it quits, I quickly installed a copy of Funcube Dashboard … Continue reading →

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TX Adjusted for XW-2A and XW-2F – 2 more QSOs

Posted on May 15, 2016 by robert

XW-2A had a pass around 22:25 UTC.  I found my uplink to be about 0.5 KHz high again, so I applied the corresponding offset to my SatPC32 doppler.sqf file, and had a good tx/rx relationship for the pass. At 22:29:06, … Continue reading →

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An Old Friend and Some New Ones

Posted on May 15, 2016 by robert

I used GPredict to plan my day and produced the following “Sky at a glance” chart: So about 5:15 PM Local Time (21:15 UTC), a decent pass of AO-7 was overhead.  I heard several CW signals (K4RGK was one of them), … Continue reading →

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And a Pair for FO-29

Posted on May 15, 2016 by robert

I had forgotten what a pleasure it is to work FO-29 — stable frequencies, great signal levels, and lots of activity.  But today I was a bit stymied by some QRM noise bursts on the 70 cm receive.  Two stations … Continue reading →

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A pair of QSOs on SO-50

Posted on May 14, 2016 by robert

Another good day for satellite action, with a pair of QSOs via SO-50.  K8TL, Tom in EM89 (Ohio) at 16:46:39 and Eric, KB1KMF, in FN56 (Maine) at 16:48:55. Lots of other stations on the bird.  

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